It sounded to me like something I personally wouldn't worry about if it is truly just coming from the water, but I thought it was extra cool they included that in the email so people could be informed.

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I would assume that the salmon DNA is being extracted from water in a salmon farm though, right? I doubt it would be from the wild. If it came from a salmon farm then I wouldn't consider it vegan, personally, but yeah that is really weird.

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Actually, since they get it from the water and probably from a fish farm, are they extracting the DNA from eggs and sperm?

yeah, "from the water" sounds suspiciously vague. Is it a homeopathic essence of fish DNA? heh

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I was recently watching a nature show on Dutch television where biologists were doing research on this rare and hard to find fish in the rivers here, and were taking samples of the water to find DNA of the fish as proof that it was present in the waters. I think it was explained that they could do this because it was somehow secreted from the skin of the fish (fish slime?). If they could do this for a rare fish in river water, it certainly seems it would be easy in a farmed environment where mass quantities of one species are confined.

I would suspect they don't mean sperm, as I think sperm is hand collected (milked) on salmon farms.

This is all just speculation, of course. I'm curious what explanation they'll give.

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